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Star Wars and History

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by Nancy Reagin


  Galactic Republic

  civil war and

  French Republic compared to

  Galactic Constitution

  lack of military

  replaced by Galactic Empire

  Senate of

  slavery in

  Galidraan

  Gardulla the Hutt

  Gates, John M.

  George III (King of the United Kingdom)

  Gérard, Georgette

  Gérôme, Jean-Léon

  Grand Army of the Republic (in Star Wars)

  Grand Chapter of the Templars

  Grant, Julia

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Greenhow, Rose

  Greenwich Mean Time

  Grievous, General

  guerilla tactics

  Gungans

  Gunray, Nute

  Hagar (biblical)

  Hammond, James

  Hapsburg dynasty

  Hawkins, John

  Henry I (King of England)

  Henry IV (Holy Roman Emperor)

  Henry V (King of England)

  Henry VIII (King of England and Ireland)

  Herodotus

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hipparchus

  Hippias

  Hitler, Adolf. See also World War II

  Ho Chi Minh

  Holofernes

  HoloNet

  Hospitallers

  Hoth

  Howe, William

  Hugh of Le Puiuset

  Hugh of Payns

  Humphrey (Duke of Gloucester)

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hutts. See also Gardulla the Hutt; Jabba the Hutt

  Imperial stormtroopers

  Index Liborum Prohibitorum

  Indian Rebellion of 1857

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

  insurgency

  InterGalactic Banking Clan

  Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)

  Iraq War

  Irish Citizen Army

  Irish nationalist movement

  Isabella (Queen of Castile)

  Jabba the Hutt

  Jacob (biblical)

  Jacobs, Jane

  Jacqueline (Duchess of Bavaria)

  Jedi Order

  Curato Salva

  Jedi Code

  Jedi Consulars

  Jedi Council

  Jedi Guardians

  Jedi Library

  Jedi Purge

  Knights and Palpatine

  Knights Templar comparison

  origin of

  power and

  ranks of

  rebellion and

  samurai comparison

  Shaolin monks comparison

  slavery and

  Trial of Courage

  U.S. military compared to

  virtues of

  Youngling massacre

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jesus

  Jiménez y Muro, Dolores

  Jinn, Qui-Gon

  Joan of Arc

  John of Brabant

  John of Salisbury

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Samuel

  Judith (biblical)

  Junger, Sebastian

  Kahn, Herman

  Kamino

  Kashyyyk

  Keene, Donald

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kenobi, Obi-Wan

  civil war and

  detective work of

  dictators and

  history and

  Jedi Order and

  in Mos Eisley

  rebellion and

  security and

  slavery and

  trade and

  women resistance fighters and

  women rulers and

  Kessel

  Ki-Adi-Mundi

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kleomenes (King of Sparta)

  Knights, defined

  Knights Templar

  Knox, John

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kypselus of Corinth

  Lancashire, Anne

  Lars, Beru

  Lars, Cliegg

  Lars, Owen

  Leia, Princess. See Organa, Princess Leia

  Lenin, Vladimir

  Li Dan

  Life of Johnson (Boswell)

  Liliukalani (Queen of Hawaii)

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Locke, John

  London, Henry

  London (Great Britain)

  Louis VII (King of France)

  Louis XII (King of France)

  Louis XIV (King of France)

  Louis XVI (King of France)

  Lowell, Percival

  Loyalists

  Lucas, George

  Maccari, Cesare

  Machiavelli, Niccoló

  Mandalorians

  Manhattan Project

  Mansfield, Lord

  manumission

  Mao Zedong

  maquis

  Marat, Jean-Paul

  Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

  Marianne

  Maria Theresa (Queen of Hungary)

  Mark Antony

  Markievicz, Countess Constance

  Mars (Lowell)

  Mary I (Queen of England and Ireland)

  masters, defined

  Mata Hari

  Matilda (Queen of England)

  Matilda (Countess of Tuscany

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McNamara, Robert

  McPherson, James

  Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, The (Alma-Tadema)

  Melisende (Queen of Jerusalem)

  Merrik, Tal

  Mexican Revolution

  milicianas

  Military Creation Act

  “military-industrial complex”

  Millennium Falcon

  Ming dynasty

  Miyamoto Musashi

  More, Sir Thomas

  Mort de César, La (Gérôme)

  Mos Eisley

  Cantina

  city of

  Mothma, Mon

  Motti, Admiral

  Mumford, Lewis

  mushin

  Mustafar

  mutual assured destruction (MAD)

  Naberrie, Padmé. See also Amidala, Padmé (Queen of Naboo)

  Naboo

  characteristics of

  civil war and

  fearlessness and

  power and

  trade and

  victory parade

  women rulers and (See also Amidala, Padmé (Queen of Naboo))

  Nagasaki (Japan)

  Napoleon

  National Security Council document NSC-162/2

  National Socialist German Workers’ Party of Germany (Nazi Party). See also World War II

  NATO

  Navy SEALs

  Neimoidians

  neutron bomb

  New York City

  Nixon, Richard

  Nizong quan

  Nuremberg Rally

  Octavian

  Odan-Urr, Jedi Master

  Oola

  Order 66

  Organa, Bail

  Organa, Princess Leia

  civil war and

  fashion of

  history and

  nuclear weapons and

  parentage of

  rebellion and

  as resistance fighter

  rule of

  slavery and

  Orlov, Count Grigory

  Otoh Gunga

  Outer Rim. See also individual place names

  Oxford University

  Padawan, defined

  Palpatine, Emperor

  Caesar compared to

  civil war and

  Death Star and

  history and

  Hitler compared to

  Jedi Order and

  Napoleon compared to

  Nixon as inspiration for

  Octavian compared to

  power and

  rebellion against

  trade and

  See also Sid
ious, Darth

  Pan, Lynn

  Panzer officers

  partisanes

  patriotism

  Paul, Frank

  Paul I (Tsar of Russia)

  Pentagon

  People’s War theory

  Peter II (Tsar of Russia)

  Peter III (Tsar of Russia)

  Philip (Duke of Burgundy)

  Philip IV (King of France)

  Pinckney, Charles

  Pinkerton, Allan

  Pisastratus

  Plagueis, Darth

  Plato

  Plutarch

  Podrace

  Pompey the Great

  Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ

  Portrait de Napoléon (Ingres)

  potestas

  Pound, Ezra

  Pragmatic Sanction of 1713

  Prasutagus (King of Iceni)

  Prince, The (Machiavelli)

  Ptolemy XII (Pharaoh of Egypt)

  Ptolemy XIII (Pharaoh of Egypt)

  qi

  Qing dynasty

  Qin Shi Huangdi

  rancor monster

  Reagan, Ronald

  Rebel Alliance

  civil war and

  Death Star attack by

  Galactic Civil War and

  history and

  Leia as resistance fighter for

  rebellion and

  Reichstag

  republic, defined

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Rights of Sentience

  Rogue Squadron

  Rome (ancient)

  power and

  Roman Empire

  Roman Republic

  See also individual names of leaders

  ronin

  Royal Guard

  R2-D2

  Russian Revolution of 1917

  samurai

  Sanchez, Ricardo

  Sandinistas

  Sand People

  Sarah (biblical)

  Satine Kryze (Duchess of Mandalore

  Schiaparelli, Giovanni

  School of Advanced Military Studies (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)

  secession

  Second Crusade (1148)

  Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR)

  Seng Bing

  Separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems. See also Dooku, Count (Darth Tyranus); Trade Federation

  sepoys

  sexual slavery

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaolin ch’uan-fa

  Shaolin monks

  Sidious, Darth

  civil war and

  as dictator

  inspiration for

  Jedi Order and

  power and

  rebellion and

  trade and

  See also Palpatine, Emperor

  Simmel, Georg

  Sing, Aurra

  Sinn Fein

  Sith Code

  skyscrapers

  Skywalker, Anakin

  civil war and

  Coruscant lifestyle of

  as detective

  dictators and

  history and

  Jedi Order and

  marriage to Padmé

  power and

  rebellion and

  slavery and

  women resistance fighters and

  See also Vader, Darth

  Skywalker, Luke

  civil war and

  Death Star attack and

  history and

  Jedi Order and

  lure of cities and

  parentage of

  rebellion and

  slavery and

  trade and

  women resistance fighters and

  Skywalker, Shmi

  Slavery Convention of 1926

  snowspeeder pilots

  Socrates

  soldaderas

  Solo, Han

  the Force and

  history and

  Leia and

  rebellion and

  slavery and

  trade and

  women resistance fighters and

  Solon

  Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst. See also Catherine the Great

  Spanish Civil War

  Special Operations Executive (SOE)

  Spring Offensive of 1972

  Stalin, Josef

  Star Destroyers

  storm troopers (German). See also Imperial stormtroopers

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)

  Sugi

  Summit (New Jersey) Diner

  Tacitus

  Takuan Soho

  Tano, Ahsoka

  Tarkin, Grand Moff

  Tatooine

  black market trade

  rebellion and

  slavery and

  trade and

  women resistance fighters and

  Techno Union

  Téllez, Dora María

  Tet Offensive

  Theed

  ticker-tape parades

  Togruta

  Tokugawa Ieyasu

  Tory’s Day of Judgment, The

  Trade Federation

  business of trade and

  civil war and

  power and

  women rulers and

  transportation, in cities

  Trial of Courage

  Triumph of the Will (documentary)

  Truman, Harry

  Tsunetomo

  Tusken Raiders

  Tython

  Unduli, Luminara

  Vader, Darth

  civil war and

  dictators and

  history and

  Jedi Order and

  nuclear weapons and

  power and

  rebellion and

  slavery and

  trade and

  See also Skywalker, Anakin

  vajramushti

  Valorum, Chancellor

  Velazquez, Loreta

  Venice (Italy)

  Ventress, Asajj

  Viet Cong

  Vietnam War

  Vindi, Dr. Nuvo

  von Ranke, Leopold

  Wake, Nancy

  War (Junger)

  Warring States Period (Japan)

  Washington, George

  Watto the Toydarian

  Waysun Liao

  Weimar Republic

  Wesell, Zam

  Westmoreland, William

  Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany)

  Windu, Mace

  Wolfe, Thomas

  Wookiees

  World War I

  World War II

  Hitler

  nuclear weapons and

  rebellion and

  women resistance fighters and

  Xiaowen (Emperor of China)

  Yagyu-Munenori

  Yavin 4

  Yoda

  on fear

  history and

  Jedi Order and

  on power

  rebellion and

  Yong Tai (Princess of China)

  Yothathep, Krom Luang (Princess of Thailand)

  Younglings, Jedi

  Zen Buddhism

  Zenobia (Queen of Palmyra

  Zheng Chenggong

  Zheng Zhihlong

 

 

 


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